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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-11-6, Page 6Address c ommultications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto The Need of Potato Grading, This simple advertisement, costing Whenthe marketing of your per-oniir about $1 for several insertions, fishable and semi -perishable farm- sold twice the number of pumpkins products is compared with the market -1 that a personal house to -house can ing of other classes of commodities' vass had sold for the other titan. one notices a vast difference in the Pumpkins ordered delivered were process. For inst inee, an inquiry ggie taken to town when other reasons dressed toa steel mill as to the price 'node a trite ifleeessary:. Farm sales of rails is not likely to result in de -in most eases were managed by the, finite quotations until the kind and %% omen folks. size of rail~ are speclsiecl, rand a farm -A. producer living near a fair-sized: er aching his hardware dealer as to. taV n can often turn a vegetable or the price of rape eel at en •e: lie asked`'rtiit crop to excellent profit by the; as to the hind and size of rope de- :rn ll ad., telephone. poet-eard route.` sired. Few prospeerive purchasers The higher the retail store price, the, would greet a n.erahant arriously with better the opportunity for direct sell-; the question. "What are plows worth U. The telephone in this trade is. to -flan?" If one cited it is cpaite likely' i e i e1ess aid. When the phone num- that liet:-;a.l.fd , i a r *l sone lee i`, mea tiered in i small advertise-' receive what atone. the ko'1ot:"i,ne lines: ewe meat, the teleli,te•ile beings orders. Iabi:e . t.;e!,,rigt�a-,4:a. p.tow, at Cane trion s":s'1'es ref leatecevives, itecustomed} eerie° and 'a sixteen.inein gang low aigiii' ti»iying ak ti nrtiri.i°n=' us phone.' vastly t, „ Flee)- coat Fx.' retic nrcl it: leo other way., +, itis t:�i!?'ere:?. Tile gime, n.r„ ;,. � T, t,., , la•�* is 'a11\ er-� holds true of ltarrct etas aeS of mer > ., .r plat .,,t a;x5..,. , i ,'ale., , elic: dice; size, kind ;arta in:'a:ley are .t is eel. air:uEa ..rJm ` Se (fames with; c10'.ely 4-soeiateai with vales. filet ta:c'S eti3yr,Ii+'net, "vlitr 1t are to the Maj -, lie etafed when ,leeiteeeting. use prey in scree pini u•s , are certain to be prlee. reduced. iheref;ia•e, when insertines, It is at this point drat fee merge!,:in .aatwerc4 atnf'nt, put sifter the farm' Ira of certain elle-see .'•1' form emir sets lis°: E:C r6a '.1 •_ ••i+l :drop a past earth is. different— errorsena:fete g my teie Ateritiale barite, 'Li ir'ser. " That little price are not so ^•19s..xy associated at eizeske atf illoiciehtfulness :tutonvitie- Yeast :at the pre:twee:: end of the lire, ns' treii ee ;he number of prospective If :he in livi"lual t lig inquired ahr.+.ar, r'u-. t mer-. Post :anis furnish a valu- p1eve were to task 1:is 1c'ai grocer 'a=I'e etre` e at a ridiculously low price" &snit what i.e was peeing for puta- 1.12 popularized as husinea s - t re,. it w i au., i tie . r...i.:aa. if .1 r , netters for farmers. They are little ?.o .. not receive the prompt rep.y. •'a dot. lar" or whatever the wase may be. On' met lines it is ene prier' as far as the: Den% Let Your Land Run Away. f rrner ,s concerned. a There's an old saying that it's an` To he sear. theee e mmr..ties are ill wind that :hili: e, : obo:ly any good. nseary ,mired 1'efi're they reach the It might with equal propriety be said cereeeier. nal it - way y iteir g .n- -p erne efom rroi?u..er to e, rerre to is , cc tri et, s to the 'a. ' t' o .11,ti:eetinx :arm pre51.; : g ;:1... inert a. 'f es „antpi ain I: saa rise add that any ene t iese indereitals . teMaame: hew- eer. the ere . hear is as midi at faith a- aeyeee it :veneer. Itis he who mon: etrenna4 i ?:y c+bjet•ts to grades and etandzrd . Re -,•at lless of who is t;. 'dame, ore thing :s eeriein: A3 °Ta; rot the ea,i ,ex suis his potatoe, �:• I0..'itoes, 1" 1 so rata r➢er.11 rills farts: pre:ieets will never reach the same leve: of perfection in marketing ae have other classes of merchandise. certainly there :s just as much need for grades and standards by which to, de.ig ate value—price—as there is 1 fag g •acres urr 1 standards in eteel rails fee i1ec grating price. Few sill dispute the assertion that; there is as ntach difference in value ' t rel:,r. ': eiy . between a five -ounce scabby petals. and a twelve -ounce smooth, dis-i ease -free one as there is between fifty-? pard and one hundred and ten -pound' rails � that it's a ruoet ur.usua: flood that doesn't teary .umehe:ly-ometla:ng Pe value. It is certainly true that ?till.,:tle drainage waters rn feequently be Trnel to geed :termini:. and be made intl'reet;y a ouree ci benefit. The writer is shini:i tg of a faraa'r acquaintance wase darn t: he s a large part of the wash frim an adjoining farm of high - yr altitude. The previous owner of the lower farm was very indignant at the seeming unfairne-s of nature, and sought in every way to rid himscl f bis iteigliher's dr;.inage water;;. His successor, however, thought other- wise. The floods from the uplands; were encouraged to enter and spread out over his fields. The result was that twenty acres or more of his farm nereased remarkably in fertility in-; erewed to the extent that the yields' were almost doubled. WW -hat the form- er owner had regarded as a nuisance,; his more progressive one looks upon; Li a blessing. THE ROYAL BANK. Au .event of great financial' import, ince transpired on the 16th inst. In the ' celebration by the Royal Bank of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. The history of the institution is one of the financial romances of Canada,. a remarkable growth in a comparative- ly sltart period from humble begin- nings to a great bankiug business, covering not only the Dominion, but extending to many foreign countries. The expansion of its business in recent years has been remarkable. Four other Institutions with establish- ed clienteles in as many provinces were absorbed, an energetic policy was pursued, and to -day the .Royal', ranks well up among the big financial concerns of the Continent. Its opera- tions in Cuba and the West Indies, a field early exploited, have given it a leading place in those countries, with the result that it has now fli x branch. es, and 42 sub -branches, giving it pre- mier place ainoug Canadian banks in this respect. Capital hasgrown to up- wards of $16,O00,Oo0, the reserve fund to $16,400,000. deposits to $331,307,0110. and assets to $470,870.000. An accomplishment of this kind is the highest tribute that can be given the vigorous and progressive character of the management and in that tribute the vice-president and managing di- reetor•, ;11r. E. L. Pease. has a large 1 share, for be it was who thirty-two years ago blued the trail of success. Tlie Royal Bank has in its president. Sir Herbert Holt, and its General Manager, Mr. C. F. Neill, men of energy, capacity, and wide experience in bueiness and banking affair,. The prosperity of the bank is a reflection of the prosperity and growing com- merce of Canada. in whiell the mail- tutiaau leas materially aided by encour- aging domestic and promoting foreign trade. The Hallmarks of a Creep= horn Mechanic, Everywhere you see the hallmurkt of the greenhorn meenanie---that fel low who knows little about machinery but thinks he knows it alk He is the man who uses the wrcrg tool on every job; who is always; able" .111E CUES FUL CHERUB .. A ghee phys.icia. , 1\1..tu e is '---• 5611 core, rr.ost .01 slur, ills \ t1-1 it and' sura 'arid Arac4• wort; - send any woot‘t bile. to tear down but seldom able to put together; who rushes in where really good mechanics fear to tread; who is always able to give advice on any mechanical subject. In short, he is the man who makes, half the wheels of repairing machin -I ery go round, because when he gets tlluough "fixing" a machine real: mechanics have a job. You can always tell when he has. been near a machine. 1 Nuts will have been loosened and; tightened by the use of hammer and cold chisel,. , Cotter pins will have been taken out :and not replaced. All lock washers will have been scattered to the winds. Threads on bolts and nuts will have been buttered and stripped. j Every part about the machine will be loose unless it has simply stayed tight of its own aeeord. I (leers will be chewed up until they , are almost unrecognizable, Bearings will have cried in vain for! grease and adjustment. Parts will be missing, paint scratch-, ed, and the whole machine dirty and unkempt. f The services of such a man are dear: at any price --are dear even if they post nothing. Do not be a greenhorn nteehanie. De no mechanic at all rather than this. And do not hire one: JE By. John. B. e, A14,1‘40 Address communications to 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto Scarlet Fever, The incubation—thehatching— period of scarlet fever is from two to four days. Then contes the invasiion, suddenly and often at bight, with vomiting, "red paint" sore throat, and a high fever; and also in severe cases, and with very young children, with convulsions. There is the "beef" "cat's" or "strawberry" tongue. The eyes are generally not inflamed. Then at the end of the first, or during the second, day—"one day to begin and two to show"—comes the scarlet -color- ed eruption, first on the chest and neck; it is often pretty well spread out and made up of many red points underlying the general flush. This eruption disappears first where it ap- pears first and in from three to five days. It peels off in shreds.'Asieom- plAeations of scarlet fever, we have, to fear inflammation of the middle ear, swollen glands in the neck, kidney dis- ease, joint inflammations, pleurisy.and i pneumonia. Scarlet fever is, like diphtheria and' measles, caught by direct contact, also, by breathing in the minute droplets; coughed or sneezed out when one conies close to the patient. The air t whkh the patient breathes is not ln, itself infectious, The diseaee is caught also from the towels, handkerchiefs, dishes and so on which the patient has been using. I The peeling in scarlet fever is not nearly so catching as the discharges 1 from the sere throat and nose in the beginning of the disease. All the; same, children with scarlet fever must 1 q of course be isolated, uarantined kept apart front other children, until!t the skin is dear and all diweharges i from the nose and th;•oat have stop- ped. There are mild forms of started fever (scarlatina) as there are mild' forms of measles or of diphtheria; lett! you can catch the disease i'evicerily GOOD HOMES ATTRACT GOO, FETED 1 LP -_ HOMES Of course, the floods were not given unrestricted liberty. They were per• - mitted to enter through a fan-like gap at the mouth of which there was al In a certain factory district, when the munition plants wet; paying high wages for labor, an enterprising farmer on the city's outskirts needed some permanent help. To get it he did what seemed to many a vain thing. Going to one of the biggest factories, where the unskilled worker received from two to three times as much as he was prepares to pay, the farmer had it announced that he wanted rnen. He stated the wages he expected to pay, described the 1'� ing conditions on a his farm, and offered quite liberal al- lowanecs &f fuel, mill: and vegetables. Then he let the men think the propo sition over for a week. A:1 rinK=lartlized products must:, either be sold by inspection or upon t the reputation of the seller—.never by I the merits of the goods before they I t .are seen. Inspection only adds an ex- • c tra handling charge, and causes a 1 t great deal of inconveliienee. t The shipper may say he has a Nn. 1 po;;ato, but what constitutes a No. 1 1 potato? If each of fifty growers and. dealers were asked to sort a bushel of No. 1 tubers, there would he many different kinds of No. 1's sorted from c the same pile. because of a lack of a h r'immon gauge by which to judge a No. 1 potato. e Marketing, Via Ad.„ Telephone and Post -Cards. One man I knew had a crop of ex- cellent pie pumpkins, altogether too p nice to feed to his cattle. He filled a Wagon and peddled from house to house in the nearest town. He re- turned home with half the load and ,informed his wife: "Pumpkin pie isn't popular this year," He reduced his rice from two cents to one and one - ah hacents a pound on a second trip, And still had pumpkins left. A third grip was necessary to sell all the crop. Another man with pie pumpkins not a bit better, placed an advertisement in the local newspaper. It wasn't the Advertisement an expert would have Written; nothing flowery; nothing cal- eulated to create an appetite for nurpkin pie, except the mere mention itf the word—which is enough. He quoted a price of two cents a. pound 2i•e1ivered, one ands one=half cents a found at the farm. He also added: ;Phone L34, or drop mea card," and ave his name and a'idress. considerable area of grass. The scat- ering of the waters greatly decreased their tendency to erode, and the grass ended to entangle the coarser Parti les and restrain them from damaging he interior of the field. In this way; he surface layer of the area above:. mentioned was deepened several nehes with fine rich silt. A critical examination of hillside, w rash reveals the fact that only the; finer and lighter parts of the soil are arried any very great distance, the 1 eavier parts accumulating along the immediate path of the drainage ditch.l The lighter humus, naturally, is float - d away quickly—an explanation of I why the first flood waters are dark' colored. Of about equal ease of re -i coeval are the soluble portions—the arts containing the most available P lant food. Those parts that render the water muddy are insoluble consti- tuents of varying degrees of fineness. The overturning, grinding, aeration, and mixing of these frequently form a soil excessively productive. It is not always possible, of course, to trap the wash from the nearby up- lands; but whenever it can be done the labor involved will being large returns. Every farmer so situated should give this matter careful atten- tion. IN TEN YEARS , oo Dollars l`f invested at 3% will amount to $687.76 tt invested at 4%, interest com- pounded guar t o r i y,' 'will amount to 3744.28 Arlt , if invested In our 6!.12% Debentures will amount to.. $060.20 Write for Booklet. The Great West Permanent i Loan Company. I !Toronto Office 20 King St.. West 1 . A limited 4uantity•'of ili5lr GradeMillEndsfor eiie ch,a;p. Samples Pree' Elevators Save Backbone and Time. Scooping corn into a crib is one of the hardest back -±breaking jobs on the farm. With an elevator the hard work is done away with, and there .is a saving of time in unloading ear corn and small grain. There is a great need for saving in both time and backbone nowadays, for there is no great abun- dance of either. Many farmers have quit 'scooping corn into cribs; elevators do it more cheaply, especially where there ins .a large amount of corn to handle. Small grain is being handled in the same way. Elevators' can be used eitherfor: filling cribs and granaries, or for emptying cribs and granaries into the' wagons at marketing time. There are different types of eleva- tors on the market. Many of the new and up-to-date cribs have pit ele- vators installed in them. The grain. is dumped from the wagons just the same as at a commercial grain ele- vator, le-v,tor, and then elevated into the cribs, or into bins overhead. Outside ele- vators can be used onany kind'. of crib. Power for all elevators can be furnished by a gasoline engine. if there el electricity on the farm. the motor ,will: furnish power. IXeacis; of cabbage which burst open can be used for making kraut. , ••'4 A week Iater he returned to the fac- tory. More than a dozen men anxious to hire out met hint. They were not inexperienced men, but steady, skilled farmhands. From these applicants he was able to pick the very kind of men he wanted, and his hired help problem was solved in short order. This incident was told by a member of an official housing commission which learned much about rural labor problems while mainly studying city conditions. A member of this com- mission says that the solution of the rural labor problem is entirely a ques- tion of suitable, attractive homes for farm hands; that the farmer who has a clean, neat, comfortable home for his help can obtain labor without much difficulty even in times of labor scarc- ity, and can also get that steady, reli- able class of help farmers must have. A former, commissioner of agricul- ture, when. he returned to his farm from college, immediately built a good home for the hired man and his fain-, ily, He says he has never had any: trouble about labor; his employees have always been of the best class, and when they left invariably it was to go to their own newly -acquired or rented farms. There is much more than wages in the labor problem. 'Some farmers al- ways seem able to get good help; others never seem able to. Large farms where there are houses for mar- ried hired men, or a farm boarding-; house for single employees, usually have less difficulty about labor than the small farm where the hired ratan must live with the family—a trying& contact which often ends suddenly the business and social relationship. Not, only does the hired man prefer his own home, but the average farm fam ' ily does also. The subject is two- sided. An outsider constantly under the home roof is a damper on family' intimacy. Where it is practical to provide ani attractive home for hired help, it' ought by all means to be done. The investment is sure to return good in-- te'rest on the cost, because the farmer I automatically will collect a paying rent en -it. The money spent will earn big dividends by attracting a desirable class of labor. When a separate house cats not be1 given the hired man, then his „guar- ters in the farm home should be com- fortable and attractive. The class of help farmers get is little if any better than the kind of quarters given the help. on, ---and the worst is yet to come 111111111, IIIII11111IF NAT from a mild case. Take no chances. A child with only a sore throat and a. slight rash ntay be the means of spreading dangerous infections. The moral is, then; Never neglect a sore throat. • Questions and Answers. Would symptoms of endocarditis (caused by rheumatic fever) disappear to any extent if I stopped smoking cigarettes? My trouble is continual throbbing when sitting cr lying down, Is my ailment a leaking valve or something worse ? I am 32 and single. I weary a lot over my trouble, What advice would you give regarding my marrying? Answer -..Endocarditis is valvular heart disease, in which a leaky valve exists. This is not necessarily a bar to length of days, and to living in comparative comfort, if one's family doctor is faithfully obeyed. I warn you that smoking may have, in your case, grave results; the rest is up to you and depends on whether you are determined upon being king of all that is under your own hat. I will not advise anybody* regarding so seri- (,us a step in life as marriage; but I urge you to consult your family doctor as to this. Do you think girls and young wo- men who go thinly clad in the winter months, wearing very little more than during the summer, are injuring their health? Does this make the blood thin and induce a run-down condition? They apparently stand it; but what is your opinion of their future health? Answer—I think se. Anemia Need poverty) may thus result. Many "folds" are no doubt thus contracted. And the neglected coli, considering what may follow in its train, is one of the most serious of hurnan malad- ies. Many case; of tuberculosis and pneumonia result from "nothing but' a cold." , 1 There are different plans of poultry houses advocated by different author- ities, and supposed -to -be authorities, some highly ornamental, some very plain in appearance, some simple hi interior arrangements and some de- cidedly complex. The exterior of a poultry building may properly reflect the owner's taste and the condition of his pocketbook. The outside appear- ance has nothing to do with the use- fulness of the house. The inside eon- struction, however, is mere important and a building which is so arranged inside that the work cannot be done easily and that the fowls cannot make the best use of the floor space, is decidedly detrimental. One of the simple plans and one of the best plans, for a email poultry building, is one front 14 to 16 feet wide and as long as is necessary, with a shed or double pitch roof. In the south side should be enough windows, each with two ,sashes, like those in a house, to thoroughly light the interior and permit the sun to reach every part of the floor at sometime during the day. In the rear, against the inside of the north wall and high enough from the $oor so that the fowls can exercise under it, should -be a roost platform, and above this, sufficient roosts so that the fowls will not be crowded. The nests may be simple boxes hooked to the sides of the house, high enough so as not to obstruct the floor. If they are hooked instead of nailed they can more easily be taken out and cleaned, which should be done oc- casionally. Grit, shell and charcoal boxes may also be hung on the wall, and the water fount should be placed on a shelf high enough so that lit will be out of the way of dirt and litter. In a house more than 50 feet long and containing three or more pens or compartments an alley along the back of the house 3 or 4 feet wide makes the work of caring for the several flocks easier. Such an alley is to a certain extent expensive because the house must be built wider or the pens must be narrower. In •such a'building, the nests may be placed under the roost platform and have a horizontal door opening into the alley through which the eggs can be gathered. The water fount and mash trough can also be arranged so that watering and mash feeding may be very convenient- ly done from the alley. Pillow Hint. When you are to make some new pillows, buy as many yards of mos- quito netting as you do ticking. Make slips of this, the samesize as slips made of ticking. Put the feathers in- to the netting, and slip into the pil- low tick. When it is necessary to wash the tick, slip out the pillow, and air the feathers, for they will be safely in- closed in the netting. The work pays. 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